IOS Reservations 4.x feature requests

[datahell]

Hoteliers control panel is complete for the sections I have already added in admin area. The hoteliers control panel is fully compatible to mobile devices (responsive design + special HTML layout).

I currently work on managing reservations in admin area (same functionality will be added in hoteliers control panel). Reservations in IOSR 4.x can be from the site IOSR runs but also from external providers (like expedia, agoda, etc...). A new feature I am working on right now: Save a reservation receipt in PDF format (for admins, hoteliers and guests).

In the first screenshot I attach you can see IOS Reservations 4.0 administration frontpage with the Hotels 1.0 extension loaded.
Note: IOSR 4 can have multiple extensions for booking different things. These extensions can be enabled individually on each Elxis multi-site. Most probably the IOSR license will be for unlimited multi-sites.

In the second screenshot you can see the hoteliers control panel as seen from a mobile device (you see the hotels listing page).

[peppemania]

in iosr 3.x is possible to move only date of reservation. Is possible to move "room" too in iosr4?

es: from room yellow to room green

[datahell]

Most of the IOSR 3.x data can be moved to IOSR 4.x as the database tables are quite similar.
In some cases these data requires modifications before they are imported. A php script specially built for this purpose can do this job automatically and with errors free.

Z date
Something important that needs conversion before the transfer is the check-in/check-out dates.
In IOSR 3.x are in this format: YYYY-MM-DD (Year-Month-Day) while on IOSR 4.x in this format: YYYYZZZ (Year-Z date).
zdate (a personally designed date format) is the increment day of a year starting from 0 (January 1) and ending to 364 or 365 (December 31). zdate is only for internal processing and data store. It was chosen as it represents a 7 digits integer which is faster in processing date comparisons, in comparison to the standard Y-M-D format.  A sample zdate is "2013063" (March 5, 2013)

Fast date comparisons with zdate
Check-in date: February 26, 2013
Check-out date: March 5, 2013

Stay duration calculation in IOSR 3.x with standard date format:
We must calculate the difference of 2013-03-05 minus 2013-02-26 which is not something easy.
Stay duration calculation in IOSR 4.x with zdates:
2013063 - 2013056 = 7 days (ultra fast calculation)

[peppemania]

interesting  the new data format ... thanks datahell.

but I was referring to the possibility, for the hoteliers in ios4,  to move the reservation from "room 1" to "room 2".
in iosr3  now is possible to move only date of reservation, but no room to other room.

[datahell]

No, you cannot change the booked hotel or room. This is a bad idea. You can modify the reservation and change some details but not the booked items.
In this case the reservation must be deleted and the customer or admin must re-book the items they want.

[kyomar]

Is this the case in the single hotel mode as well? I mean not being able to move a guest into another room in the same hotel. If no, why?

[datahell]

There is already solution for what you want. You can delete the reservation from backend/hotelier panel, re-do it and assign it to the same user.

I will see if it is problems free to be able to change room (not hotel) on reservation edit. My main concern is that there are things on reservation that are room based. If you change the room the whole reservation might become problematic (for instance there will be issues with addon services calculated based on rooms) . I will see what can be done, but as I said I find it a bad idea. In everything I develop my first priority is security and then stability. I will never implement a feature that might generate issues.

[jraulc]

That sounds awesome! and everything looks very nice and easy to use (y) thank you for that amazing well done job.

Hoteliers control panel is complete for the sections I have already added in admin area. The hoteliers control panel is fully compatible to mobile devices (responsive design + special HTML layout).

I currently work on managing reservations in admin area (same functionality will be added in hoteliers control panel). Reservations in IOSR 4.x can be from the site IOSR runs but also from external providers (like expedia, agoda, etc...). A new feature I am working on right now: Save a reservation receipt in PDF format (for admins, hoteliers and guests).

In the first screenshot I attach you can see IOS Reservations 4.0 administration frontpage with the Hotels 1.0 extension loaded.
Note: IOSR 4 can have multiple extensions for booking different things. These extensions can be enabled individually on each Elxis multi-site. Most probably the IOSR license will be for unlimited multi-sites.

In the second screenshot you can see the hoteliers control panel as seen from a mobile device (you see the hotels listing page).

[jraulc]

And if you don't make mention of this I never could imagine that and now I think about it well, make much sense, I never had to make calculations with dates, it must be a true headache make a funtion for that, I hope you have considered  the leap years because then the year is 366 days, so, thank you again

Most of the IOSR 3.x data can be moved to IOSR 4.x as the database tables are quite similar.
In some cases these data requires modifications before they are imported. A php script specially built for this purpose can do this job automatically and with errors free.

Z date
Something important that needs conversion before the transfer is the check-in/check-out dates.
In IOSR 3.x are in this format: YYYY-MM-DD (Year-Month-Day) while on IOSR 4.x in this format: YYYYZZZ (Year-Z date).
zdate (a personally designed date format) is the increment day of a year starting from 0 (January 1) and ending to 364 or 365 (December 31). zdate is only for internal processing and data store. It was chosen as it represents a 7 digits integer which is faster in processing date comparisons, in comparison to the standard Y-M-D format.  A sample zdate is "2013063" (March 5, 2013)

Fast date comparisons with zdate
Check-in date: February 26, 2013
Check-out date: March 5, 2013

Stay duration calculation in IOSR 3.x with standard date format:
We must calculate the difference of 2013-03-05 minus 2013-02-26 which is not something easy.
Stay duration calculation in IOSR 4.x with zdates:
2013063 - 2013056 = 7 days (ultra fast calculation)

[datahell]

Yes, leap years are taken under consideration in both IOSR 3.x and 4.x.
Price rates in IOSR 4.x are much easier to manage.

[andreatravel]

Child age is just a text in language files.
You can modify the language string and change the default "2-12" to anything you want.

ah, then remains as in iOS3, I had the same problem.
If I have (for example) 100 hotels, these hotels have different child policy, some have child free up to 4 years, others up to 6 years, some up to 8 years old, etc etc...
It's not just the language file to edit.. 

[datahell]

You should write these things in the hotel's terms and conditions area but I agree with you that it should be more clear. I will most probably add what you need.

[andreatravel]

Thanks, it would be a great thing 
In the terms and conditions will be indicated, but then it is the system that will count, the rule is 2-12 years European policies outside Europe children are different.

[datahell]

An IOSR Connector plugin for Elxis 4.x is available. You can now accept bookings on any Elxis 4.x powered site via IOSR Connector open interface.
Presentation and screeshots at EDC

IOSR Connector requirements and inter-connectivity options

Requirements for the server site
- IOS Reservations 3.x component with IOSR Connector server on an Elxis 2009.x site.

Requirements for the client sites
- IOSR Connector 3.x plugin on an Elxis 4.x site.
or
- IOSR Connector bot on an Elxis 2009.x site.
or
- IOSR Connector plugin on a Joomla site.
or
- IOSR Connector standard client on any PHP powered site.

People having purchased IOSR Connector can contact me to send them the plugin for Elxis 4.x for free.

[andreatravel]

I ask a question
In iOS3 there was the possibility to add extra services for each hotel.
You could make sure that you can choose the same service for most hotels without adding it to each individual hotels?
The reason is very simple, for example, insert a transfer airport / hotel, the cost of this transfer costs 30 $, we assume that this service will add 30 hotels to a location, if this service a day increases the price, I should get into every hotels in the cost of this change, but if the service had been independent, it is sufficient to update the price of that and you would upgrade accordingly.
It's one thing feasible?